University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California. UCSB's campus has not been annexed by the city of Santa Barbara and is not technically part of the city, though it is closer in proximity to Goleta. The City of Santa Barbara runs a strip of "city" through the ocean and around UCSB. Although UCSB has a Santa Barbara mailing address, as do other unincorporated areas around the city, it is not in Santa Barbara city. The campus is divided into three parts: Main campus, Storke campus, and West campus. The campuses surround the community of Isla Vista. It is one of ten University of California campuses.

History

UCSB was founded in 1909 as a small school for training public school teachers, and four years later moved to a 13-acre (53,000 m²) campus in the Riviera area above town. By 1935, the school was called Santa Barbara State College, or "SB State". In 1944, SB State joined the University of California system and upgraded its curriculum to provide master's degrees. Ten years later, UCSBC, as it was then called, moved to a former World War II Marine air base and began building a new campus at its present site. An old helipad still exists at the cliffs near Campus Point to this day, as well as a few old Marine artillery position roads still led around this region. Campus Point was used by the Marines during World War II to practice assault landings. In 1958, UCSBC was renamed UCSB, and steadily progressed to a nationally ranked research university that currently offers almost 100 bachelor's progams, 50 master's programs and over 30 Ph.D. programs.

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